As a responsible business, we strive to have a positive impact on the communities we operate in and serve. This includes making employment opportunities accessible and attractive to all, and providing a stimulating, diverse and inclusive workplace and culture. We offer fair, equal, and unbiased recruitment, promotion, and reward systems, as well as a safe, inclusive, and agile work environment where talent can thrive.
Our people undertake varied and fulfilling accountancy and advisory work for a wide range of local, national, and international clients. We promote a vibrant and agile one-firm culture, where career and professional development opportunities run alongside wellbeing support, excellent communication, valued employee benefits and a quality of life. These are attributes that set us apart.
Health & Wellbeing
Our overall ambition is to create an environment where all individuals can bring their best selves to work, building the right culture to enable people to find a healthy work-life balance.
Using feedback from the Great Place to Work® survey, the BITC Tracker, and the BITC Workwell Model, our Health & Wellbeing teams continue to focus their efforts around four core wellbeing pillars – Mental, Physical, Financial and Social.
Inclusion & Diversity
Promoting inclusion and diversity is a fundamental aspect of our values and business strategy at Bishop Fleming. We believe that diverse perspectives fuel innovation and drive positive change. We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values inclusion, diversity, equality, and equity and recognise that we have 500 people who are completely different, with each one bringing something unique to the collective mix.
View our Diversity Report by clicking here.
Gender parity and greater diversity within the workplace are important for society as a whole and as a responsible business, gender pay gap reporting is a significant element of our transparency. Whilst we have an almost equal number of men to women, we understand our gender pay gaps are caused by an underrepresentation of women at senior levels and we are actively working to address this. The number of female senior managers and directors has increased to 40% in the last financial year, and in recent promotional rounds, 57% of those promoted were female.
View our Gender Pay Report by clicking here.
Employment & Skills
Our business has a strong ethos in employee engagement. In 2024, we achieved the Accounting Excellence Employer of the Year Award. In addition, for the third consecutive year, we have been recognised as a Great Place to Work® by the Best Workplaces Programme and re-listed again as a UK Best Workplaces™ for Women, which reflects who we are as a firm.
Since 2020 the firm has proudly held the status of ‘Partner in Learning’ with the ICAEW. To achieve this status, the ICAEW have recognised the learning that is offered throughout our apprenticeship programme to complement the ACA qualification and work-based learning. In addition, we hold ‘Platinum’ status for training and development with the ACCA. We are one of very few accountancy firms that has taken this step of becoming an employer-provider and are delighted to be ranked 11th in The Sunday Times Top 100 Apprentice Employers 2025.
Our work has been recognised by Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills), which has given an Outstanding rating in their first full inspection of our Apprentice Programme across all five areas.
Each September we onboard around 70 new apprentices into the firm, with 30% of them joining straight from school. Complementing the structured work experience weeks that we host, the ‘Launch Pad’ non-graduate programme is an important element of our social mobility focus, giving young people an alternative career path into the accountancy profession.
